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From: Space Wombat #3 on 7 Jul 2010 08:38 > > I'd strongly recommend reconsidering about the Sony. You won't like > being stuck with Windows! > > Cheers - Jaimie Sigh yes, If I could pick up a cheap, say three year old iMac or iBook, I would jump at it. The prices for refurbs on the Apple Store seem very high tho. I use a PC at work everyday - and for web browsing, photos, audio work the iMac just seems so much more pleasant an experience, To be honest tho, there is certain amout of "fingers burnt" with the G5 - it has be much less realiable than the el cheapo HP and Toshiba laptops I use at work. Seeing my wife's shiny Vaio has shown me that a decent quality PC, combined with the new OS (which seems to have blatently copied many OSX features) is a competitor again (for context, the last home PC I owned was a 486).
From: Duncan Kennedy on 7 Jul 2010 10:16 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > "Space Wombat #3" <rob_murfin(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> <rob_mur...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> it may be the time to make the move to a Sony Vaio laptop - my wife > >>> has one for work and speaks nothing but praise for the build > > > > quality. > >> > >> The Viao range is huge, and includes nice, well-made stuff and also > >> Gateway-style dreggiest shite. Be very ware. > >> > >> Also, strip off the Windows and install from scratch. The shovelware > >> they come with is unbelievably irritating to remove. > >> > > > > > > 1. Could I set up the Viao (new MS O/S whatever it is called) so it > > could read my OSX 10.5 formatted external USB HD - that has 21 gig of > > photos stored on it? > > No, it won't read that format, you will have to copy it to a fat32 disk > that both the Mac and pc can read. > I am no Mac expert but my Win Vista and XP boxes seem to be able to read and write to / from NTFS and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) OK not the answer for using and external drive plugged into a PC but please read on. I do have Pragagon NTFS for Mac installed and they do list 2 way transfer from Widows to Mac OS file systems and, if I remember correctly, offer an application for Windows these days to read Mac formats. Paragon also have a rather nice file partition and format changing facility built in. I've used without any probem it but I would advise at least reading the blurb and backing up, of course. (I once had a license code problem with one Amazon purchased version and I found the folk at Paragon remarkably quick and helpful - they sent me a link to a new version just released, the approprate license and links to free Windows applications too.) -- duncank
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 7 Jul 2010 10:33 On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 05:38:59 -0700 (PDT), "Space Wombat #3" <rob_murfin(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> I'd strongly recommend reconsidering about the Sony. You won't like >> being stuck with Windows! > >Sigh yes, If I could pick up a cheap, say three year old iMac or >iBook, I would jump at it. The prices for refurbs on the Apple Store >seem very high tho. Once you've checked out the quality of the cheaper Viaos, and compared to the tastiness that is eg the 13" MacBook Pro, go look at those refurb prices again. You were definitely unlucky with the G5 - you got the tail end of the capacitor rot plague, plus other trouble. These days, as long as you're not Zoara, the Apple stuff is really very solid stuff. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do." -- Steven Brust
From: Gwynne Harper on 7 Jul 2010 11:42 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > 1. Could I set up the Viao (new MS O/S whatever it is called) so it > > could read my OSX 10.5 formatted external USB HD - that has 21 gig of > > photos stored on it? > > No, it won't read that format, you will have to copy it to a fat32 disk > that both the Mac and pc can read. <http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/> Always worked well for me. Gwynne -- My real email is net, not line.
From: Space Wombat #3 on 7 Jul 2010 12:11
> You were definitely unlucky with the G5 - you got the tail end of the > capacitor rot plague, plus other trouble. These days, as long as > you're not Zoara, the Apple stuff is really very solid stuff. > > Cheers - Jaimie I know, I know - I have always been a Mac evangelist - the G5 was (as you say) a troubled step in the CRT imacs to the next gen. A refurbed mac is the answer, its just finding one a price that wont push me to a cheapo PC laptop as an interim solution |